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oh dont get me wrong, I think the tunnel is a great training tool. And I dont doubt that he's having a blast (why else would he spend all that money) I'm just talking about the 6000$ to just get off the net. I'm sure with another 6000$ he'll be flying hd circles around people, having a blast the whole while that he's doing it. For a lot of people though, that first 6 - 10 grand might be an entire seasons skydive budget, and whith a tunnel you could spend it in weeks instead of months. heh I'm probably just a bit jealous that some of you can pound out 8 hours of tunnel and then just keep going. That and hoping it would be less than 8 hours in a tunnel before starting hd

Tunnel time may be more cost effective if your just looking at air time, but it also has to eat through your yearly skydive budget way the hell quicker doesnt it? thats 6000$ you could burn through in no time. I've definatly been attracted to going and doing a few tunnel trips and drop some hours in there, but 6000$ sounds an aweful lot to get a stable hd started.

C'mon Zee...that the best you got? At least hit us with your man-purse. thats the first time I've ever heard someone ask to be tea-bagged

for not being able to get used to all that fabric you have a knack for picking bigger and bigger suits. nice looking suit, give a flight report after you get a few more flights on it. Jealous of seeing you guys having fun where its sunny, maybe one of these days they will approve my vacation requests

it sounds like it wasn't really luck that got you out of that spot as much as it was poor planning on your part that put you into it. its good that you now see the importance of proper flight planning. Take care to plan the things that are within your control so that hopefully you only have to use your luck when unavoidable.

not sold yet... I guess part will depend if I go macbook or not (right now I'm actually leaning towards aliens new 15.4" inch, small enough to be portable but can still fit in some serious power) I've primarily used premiere in the past but will probably switch to something more avchd friendly like vegas all this started with a blody camera helmet, which of course needs a hd cam on top, which led to the slr I've been wanting to get, which needs a laptop at the dz, which needs a nice new lcd 42" screen to view on when I finish editing... bloody hell. haha damn this domino effect

thanks I just started looking there when I saw 869.00 for the cx7 597.00 for the xti with the kit lens and 87.00 per 8 gig card I could get the cx7, the xti and 2 -8 gig sticks for about 1650.00..... heheh now off to price laptops and hd tv's (I know I'm a bastard but I've been saving for a while and what better way to spend it :P lets see... macbook pro or alienware

on the note of the camera itself, anyone bought from amazon.com for electronics? theyve got their cx7 on for 869.99 (its 1099 up here in stores)

if you do it from home you are at least required to have a wife or girlfriend rolling her eyes at you running around the house dressed as a flying squirrel, maybe even holding the trash she's trying to get you to take out. nothing like waiting forever for a new suit, only to find out you might have to send it back to get it tailered. hope it feels better with the rig on

I'm just about to put my money down on a cx-7 for skydiving (helmets on the way) and was wondering if anyone had a good source for memory sticks. The price point on the 8 gigs vs the 4 gig sticks (from what I've seen so far ) put it cheaper to by 2 - 4 gigs that a single 8 gig. I plan on getting a few sticks as I'd like this cam to double as an on the ground camcorder, and dont want to have to rely on dumps to disk after I fill a single stick. I might have the laptop on the dropzone, but it might not accompany me on all vacations.

thanks. my renders are actually done in lightwave, however I post process them in photoshop and paint a lot of details for a final image. my grandfather flew this particular lancaster in wwII so the renders are at a high enough resolution to print out and hang on the wall (about 5500 pixels across)

sorry I should have said useless for my application. My uses for hdr's require that they have a very high dynamic range within them. As its not the final converted image that matters but that they retain that range to be used in a 3d application, the hdr is imported into a 3d package and used to "light" a 3d scene. another example of a 3d scene partially lit by hdr's

I use hdr's everyday, but the extraction got out of a single raw image would be useless. Multiple exposures are needed to get a useful hdr. In my job hdr's are used in lighting 3d objects. myself personally would be interested in the ability to capture hdr's in freefall as I could use them as a 3d render probe for my aviation art, those hdr's then combined with a pic taken on the same jump could allow for much better integration

an aircraft emergency could easily eat up five hundred feet. the aircraft could get to 1500 and be back down to 1000 before you get your ass out. I wouldnt take that chance that low to the ground for a 2 out, or for a snivel for that matter.

haha it involves Lurch's so called mechanical abilities and a bite switch Scotty was having problems with. I dont think Lurch will be asked to help "fix" something for a long time

nothing like sandbagging to start their careers ;) seriously though these kids are going to be flying at a ridiculous level when they turn 18... I wonder if anyones ever taught a headdown aff course?

so how did the weekend go with the convertor? did the connector plates look like they wouldnt have any play in them, and does it look like it would be easy to attach any 3rd party box to those plates? It looks like they are having a price increase starting feb 1st so I'm thinking of getting my order in before that to save a few bucks. any pics of your new setup? thanks

haha what an absolute mess vista turned out to be, I dont know any one that wants to touch it with a ten foot poll, though they load it on pretty much every new computer now so you'd have to wipe it anyway DSE, I'm guessing bootcamp lets you dual boot from a windows os to leopard? Now that macbook's have the intel processors in it. did you upgrade all the way to 4 gigs or just to 2?

I've long been a pc user, and the more I mess around with hardware/software etcetc I feel like maybe trying out a mac for a laptop. What type of laptop do you guys use for camera work? how do you find the editing packages between the two platforms? I'm guessing it'll need to be fairly fast to deal with the uncompressing and rendering of the avchd codecs

haha yeah its about time I got a laptop, I do visual fx for a living so most of my computer money gets invested in desktops.

okay your talking about reading back from a nle, so thats assuming I have the footage on a computer already right? is there a way to copy directly from the other camcorder, I know long ago in the past I'd just press play on one cam and plug into mine and press record (not for skydiving, but for my old mountainbiking stuff, recording to dv tapes) to transfer I've been out of the video market for a long time so its all a little new to me again

I figured I'd continue an existing cx7 thread rather than start a new one. Does the cx7 have any ability to read a signal from an external source and record to its memory stick? Normally at the end of the day I'd like to be able to grab footage from anyone I've been diving with (maybe hd or sd depending on what camera's everyone else is flying with), but being a hd signal and not having firewire, I'm wondering if this is possible with this camera? I went to the sony store but the salesperson couldnt answer my question. Ive got a bit of money to play with so I'm trying to put together a cam helmet that will fly a cx7 and a rebel xti or xsi, but I'd rather not go to anything too big like a flat top. (something more like a rawa, fuego, ff3) as I like the idea of an hd/stills combo on a smaller helmet. after the initial few reviews on the cx7 I havent heard that many follow up posts, hows everyone likeing their cx7, and pics of your setups?

speaking of work, where is that flock & dock 3.5 video, you are planning to have it done before 4.0 arent you Matt? . the holidays excuse only lasts so long good luck on the helmet, amazing what some people are willing to go through to get a perfectly fitting camera helmet.

I've done a search and only managed to find one post about it so I though I'd ask in the photography forum. Are there any reviews on the tonfly convertor option for its fuego pro line of helmet? It seems to add a decent amount to the price, but the concept is interesting. If anyone has used this system I'd be very interested in hearing what you thought of it I'm looking at getting a camera helmet, not for any paid work (filming tandems etc) but just for recreational use, and something to watch on the lcd when its raining outside) I'm planning on jumping a smaller hd type cam (hc5, maybe cx7) but I also own a rebel xti that I can envision using just for occasional jumps. Is it a problem to be removing/changing camera's, or is the convertor just making it more convieniant? It looks like while the system is built into the helmet itself, the camera side of the attachment could be put into any box or onto a camera with a little modification, is this correct? the fuego/blackbox/optik type of helmets look like they would work nice for the type of camera use I'd be looking at (having not owned camera helmets I'm basing this on reading the photography forums and trying to do searches on my requirements, but if anyone has further advise I'd welcome it) with the new smaller memory stick type hd cams coming out I can see the possibility in the future of sidemounting something like a cx7 or the new samsung hvx-20c (if it turns out to be skydive friendly) and putting the rebel xti on the top. thanks Dan

if you make it out west, stop by at Pacific Skydivers (just outside of vancouver) We've got a king air to get us up to altitude and are starting to convince more of the locals to put on wings, so we're building the flock. More birds are always welcome